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Searching for "(1)" should do the trick. Special characters like parentheses are often used for more complicated search queries, but surrounding them with quotation marks will cause them to be treated like normal.
Incidentally, there are also various programs out there that can automatically find duplicate images for you, even if the filenames aren't similar. I personally use Anti Twin.
Recently had lots of duplicates to get rid of. Much better than second best Dupeguru is imo Anti-Twin. Others like CloneSpy, Duplicate Files Finder, Doublekiller, Search My Files were even less helpful. All the other simular apps even worse. Anti-Twin: http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/
You have several problems here.
For removing duplicates there are many solutions out there. I personally use AntiTwin. Very old and free program. Very small and it doesn't need installation. It fits for my purposes. Very simple to use, just take care at settings: do not leave it to do content / byte by byte comparison - do just name and size comparison. Also, bump the max number of duplicates as much as you can.
For image management I use XnView MP - very fast - near-realtime thumbnail generation, very scalable, free, cross-platform, a ton of features. If you don't know something you can ask on their forums. It doesn't need "Import" phases or similar.
From now on make a new folder structure like this:
<year> \ <month> \ <your folder name>
"Your folder name" can be the default one but I strongly advise against that. Do as you wish. In this way, you will avoid duplicates in future.
Anti-Twin I use it more for finding duplicate files but can can find duplicate images even if they are a different format from each other. Its pretty powerful.
Searching for duplicates pictures with software is relatively easy, I like the tool called Anti-Twin, for that purpose, which should help with the first issue.
For the sorting issue, I would suggest using Irfanview, basically download and install it. Then right click the folder with the pictures in them. You should see a new option called Browse with Irfanview, then Irfanview will load up in thumbnail view. Then when Thumnails view is open you can click on the options menu and select Load Thumbs from all subfolders, this can take a while when lots of photos are being looked at, so please be patient. Also there is another option in the options menu names called Set thumbnail options.. you can use it to increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails.
As for sorting, just press and hold control on your keyboard then select all the images you want, then right click on the selection and choose move selected files, a new window should open up and the new window will allow you to add a number of folders you wish to move the file to and then you just have to click the corresponding button and the files will be moved to that folder.
Interesting seeing the various methods. It gets a lot worse if you have a desktop, a server, a small light laptop and a large engineering workstation laptop, all of which get upgraded from time to time.
Here are some utilities that will greatly reduce your workload cleaning up your filesystem.
Anti-Twin - finds duplicates that are byte-for-byte identical. http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/
Parhelia Path Scanner - finds those overly-long paths. http://www.parhelia-tools.com/products/pathscanner/PathScanner.aspx (The "Old path Scanner" works fine and is free)
jonasjohn.de Remove Empty Directories http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/red.htm
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Despite the old age (it's from 2010), Anti Twin works really good! It offers filename, content and similarity scan.
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http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/similar.html
At a minimum it seems to supports JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, EXIF, TIF and ICON It is based upon windows GDI+, It seems from a quick glance it may not be possible to add other formats to the normal GDI+ without the developer supporting additional codecs for GDI+ as they are called by a slightly different method,
> However, my files are scattered through the SD and the HD and sometimes it's difficult to manage them
This is an indication of poor file management. Don't worry we are all guilty of this to some extent or other. The first thing to do is use a tool like Windirstat or treesize free or any disk space analyzer to see where your files are located. As a rule do not touch anything in the c:\windows folder, don't touch anything in the program files and programs files 86 folder as well. Use the disk space analyzer to move only your files on one specific place. I would recommend creating a new partition and only storing all of your files there, so its separate from the C: drive, which makes it easier to reinstall windows also.
Then make it a rule to only save files in specific folders only, and not any other folder. In fact you should have specific folders only for that purpose.
The other thing to help in file management is removing unneeded duplicates of files. For this I would highly recommend a tool like Anti-Twin, it can find both normal files and even images which are duplicates, this will help greatly as it can even compare different drives to find duplicates to be removed.
anti-twin how is that this was an amazing app the fact they can check for duplicate images pixel by pixel or file bit by bit and/or by name.
ninite.com well technically not software amazing that you can have one installer to install 50 programs all in one go. Their list is a little limiting but still amazes me every time I have to set up a new PC.
> Search by size, date, and other file metadata
Well if the folders are part of a library under Windows you can actually search for them with various characteristics. Some tages need to be added manually so that's a chore.
> OCR for in image text search
Welp that's a time consuming process and for thousands of files, er that's a job in its own.
> Searching for faces or other recognizable things
Not aware of anything that does this at a windows level. Google Photos could do this but you have to upload all the images first.
> Search by color or similarity
Not sure about color although its entirely possible something like that exists. For similarity I sometimes use Anti-twin but its mostly for looking for duplicates of images, and other files, although there is a similarity tool in there that you can adjust.
File Management tools:
Antitwin: Virtually idiot proof duplicate file finder, supports images and auto-selecting files for deletion. Very easy to use, but also very powerful.
Glary Quick Search Great on demand file search tool.
Anti-twin, for the win.
I've never tried 6000+ files, you might have to run it a number of times. It's quite safe IMHO and will not allow you to delete all versions on one type of file.